New York City-based company The-Artery is expanding its operations into Los Angeles. Concurrently, the creative studio has named industry veteran Karin Levinson as its head of features and television content. Levinson will helm the new LA office, and will spearhead new business initiatives across film, TV, advertising, VR and AR.
The-Artery has recently produced visual effects for several feature film and television projects. These include Netflix’s thriller film “The Discovery,” starring Robert Redford, Jason Segal and Rooney Mara; the feature “Norman,” starring Richard Gere; the Netflix series “The Get Down,” and Showtime’s hit series “Billions.” Recently, The Artery has also produced visual effects for advertising campaigns promoting Allegra and IZOD; visual effects featured within the television promotion of the Broadway show “Anastasia;” visual content for the VMA Awards; and creating social content for Pepsi.
In addition, The-Artery’s recently launched Experiential Division creates transformative and immersive experiences for a diverse range of global brands. To date, these experiences have included projects for Cartier/Fifth Avenue, New York; TOPSHOP, Soho, New York; the Tel Aviv Museum; the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow; Radio City Music Hall’s legendary Rockettes; and the Expo Milan 2015. The-Artery also enjoys a special artistic collaboration with video artist Ronen Sharabani, a 2006 Cannes Gold Lion winner. This collaboration develops and presents innovative and original video content and VR to museums, art galleries, and other special location-based artistic venues around the world.
Prior to joining The-Artery, Levinson served as VP of marketing and content development at Eclipse, an entertainment advertising agency. She was also the director of marketing and new business development at entertainment advertising agency Ant Farm.
Earlier, Levinson had been the EVP, features and television, at Artemple–Hollywood, during which time she worked on HBO’s series “Vinyl,” the Warner Bros. film “Entourage,” New Line Cinema’s film “War Dogs,” and Fox Sports Weather-Controlled Digital Billboards Content for FIFA Women’s World Cup as Artemple’s executive producer.
Levinson also worked for several years at the visual effects house Gravity (formerly RhinoFX) as the company’s EVP, features and television, and executive producer. While there, she was responsible for procuring VFX work on such feature films as “Crazy, Stupid, Love,” “Tower Heist,” ”The Adjustment Bureau,” “Begin Again,” “Salt,” “The Other Guys,” “Arthur,” “Ghost Town,” “The Reader,” “I Love You Phillip Morris,” and “The Nanny Dairies.”
Previously, Levinson served as EP and VFX producer at Black Box Digital, which was noted for its groundbreaking design on Steven Spielberg’s “Minority Report” and “A.I.” While at Black Box Digital, she was also involved with such films as “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” “Hellboy,” “Domino,” “The Island,” “National Treasure,” “After The Sunset,” and “Bee Season.”
Earlier in her career as an independent producer, Levinson produced the HBO feature documentary “Let Me In – I Hear Laughter” (A Salute to the Friars Club). After getting her start as an apprentice film editor on New Line Cinema’s “The Mask,” Levinson also worked at both Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks SKG for several years.
